This Week I’ve Been Playing And Doing Some Testing With The Keaton Family In Sunset Valley. Decided

Stargazing

~ S P R I N G ~ 

“Grace, what are you doing out here?” Matt came and stood beside her on the deck railing, as he closed the door the happy chatter of Bible Study grew dim again and the summertime crickets returned.

Gracie let Matt lean next to her and she pointed to the stars. “It’s a meteor show tonight. It doesn’t start ‘til later but I thought I’d see if I could find any shooting stars. Plus it was getting a little stuffy in there. I mean its great that it’s so full,” Gracie began to stammer, not wanting him to get the wrong idea. “I love seeing so many people at our home group, all hungry to learn about Jesus, don’t get me wrong…”

“It’s just a lot of new faces at once right?” He asked gently. Gracie relaxed and nodded “I hear you. Plus it’s so nice out here! Want to sit?” Matt motioned to the ground and Gracie joined him, a respectable space away. They started pointing out constellations and easily chatting as the night grew darker, and slowly the bible study inside emptied of people. “Hey Grace?” “Yeah?”

“Do you know that I like you?” His voice was timid, which was different from his usual cocky confidence.

But Gracie was to focused on the sky to notice. “Yeah, of course. I mean I like being friends too.” “No, I mean I like you silly girl,” Matt said again, realizing she had no clue. He looked deeply at her as her head whipped around to look at him.

“Me?” She squeaked, and then began coughing. Matt laughed and patted her back until she stopped. “I’m flattered, I mean, I guess I hoped, but I just didn’t think I was your type I guess. I thought photographers only dated models? I just…” She stopped as Matt laughed again, and she felt her nervous heart beating fast.

“Well then you be my new model. Grace, you’re beautiful, you’re smart and kind, why wouldn’t you be my type?” “Ha, me a model, yeah right. You need someone fancier, whose idea of  a good Saturday is a day at the spa and a photo shoot on the beach, not a girl like me who spends her day knee deep in dirt in the garden, grading children’s papers and watching movies with her cat.”

“But I love cats!”

Gracie laughed, “Well we’ll have to see if my cat likes you.” “Deal, so if your cat likes me will you go out with me?” Gracie decided to tease, “I mean, I guess, but that’s pretty risky she doesn’t  like a lot of people.” “I’ll take my chances”

Ahhh Matt...Gracie’s next boyfriend but not end game poor girl. Loved using some base sims for these gorgeous sims

“Can I sit here?” Gracie’s timid voice squeaked as she asked. She cleared her throat.

“Yeah, totally!” The girl in the Hawaiian print shirt smiled openly. “But you have to promise not to judge me for this plate of dessert.”

Gracie giggled as she sat down, “Deal.”

“So are you new here?”

Gracie brushed at the wisps of hair threatening to stick to the sweat on her forehead. “Yeah, I just recently moved to Appaloosa Plains for a teaching job. I’m a little anxious…” Gracie trailed off as a muscular man approached. It took her all of three seconds to know he was one good looking guy.

“Oh this is Matt,” the girl pointed.

“Hey” he waved with one hand.

“Oh and I’m Nicole!” The girl said apologetically.

Matt across his plate towards Gracie “and remember it’s Nicole, not Nicki, otherwise she’ll hate you forever and probably hurt you” he winked.

Nicole rolled her eyes “That’s only half true, I just hate the nickname Nicki”

“Got it” Gracie said. She found conversation came easily and before she knew it Matt and Nicole felt more like long lost friends than recent acquaintances.

“Any one else want seconds on dessert?”

“Me!” Both girls replied and giggled. They got up and waited in the buffet line, with Matt also grabbing a variety of other left overs.

“Uhm Matt, why are you giving that old lady a death glare?”

“Because she’s eating the last piece of key lime pie” He pouted, turning his puppy dog eyes on the girls.

“Well I can help with that, I made it so how about you guys come over soon and I’ll make you some?”

“Yes!” “Great”

I guess moms recipe was a success, Gracie thought.

——————- A big thanks to Frankie @simplyimaginarypeople whose sims from the SSFF challenge I used as a base for Nicole and to @plumblobs whose base sim Jack I used to make Matt.

An old simblrsimplyforfun challenge but I love how these simmies turned out. I might need to add them in as townies for my current save. Also love love love this house by @kinsethdesign / @miss-sassy-simmer

Simblr Simply for Fun Mini Challenge 4

Loved this mini challenge from Frankie! Both these sims started so beautifully it was hard to change them!

Meet Ezekiel and Kira. I loved the freckles on Zephyr so I didn’t want to change his skin, but I did do some tweaking to his nose and mouth as well as new hair and clothes. In Winchester now he’s a firefighter who wants to promote and start a family with his fiancé Kira.

For Lina, I mostly just changed her eye shape and brow shape, but I love how the bangs soften up her face. In my mind she loves children, and she works at the Winchester Library, and she loves to get to know the kids and recommend books for them, as well as her weekly story time is legendary among the little tikes.

Thank you @gruesim for this fun challenge, and also thank you to @miss-sassy-simmer for the house I photographed them in. Could I have the Oz skin please?

If  you’d like to add them to your game (and I’d love to see them!) here are their links. 

Kira Cox: http://simfileshare.net/folder/67861/ Ezekiel Wilson: http://simfileshare.net/folder/67862/

@simblrsimplyforfun

Hey guys, coming back from my hiatus to release some WIPS for you. I had a few things in my drafts and was able to finish a few up and wanted to get them out to you. Starting today with the biggest set OAK HOUSE by Pierisim with 25 new items and then the next two saturdays I have the Saint Greer town hall set to release and another small kids item. Hope you like them. <3 SimsDeoGloria

Syboulette Helios Walls Collab with MainlyJustTheSims

Syboulette Helios Nursery Walls a collab with @mainlyjustthesims​

4 New Wallpaper Patterns to go with the amazing Syboulette Helios conversions by PixelRabbit! I have wanted this set in my game for so long and was thrilled when I saw Pixel Rabbit’s conversion. I had one of the wallpapers already done in my WIP folder so this was the perfect motivation to finish them Please go check out and download the rest of @mainlyjustthesims​ set here: X

Click here to download the wallpapers: http://simfileshare.net/folder/174223/

Mason’s Home Updates

Today I’m sharing some home updates. My sweet friend Becca who I visited at the blogging conference is an interior designer and she helped us pick paint colors, and her husband and mine came and tore up walls, put in new floors, and put up trim and paint. I love the new black doors, white trim and finally white windows.    Here are some before and afters!  The Before of the entryway in one word was: Dark! 

I’m so in love with the after. The bench was an antique store find, and I love the half shiplap, half painted walls Becca helped us with. I love all the flowers in this space and it’s so functional for our needs.

Here’s the before of the living room. Can you tell that we bought this house from some elder sims? But now I love how light and bright it is. The fireplace is my favorite and I love how now the center of our home feels so peaceful and inviting. We have also finished the laundry room and downstairs bathroom, so all that’s left is the kitchen/dinning area. But I think the next space I’ll be sharing is my office make over. (Or cute pictures of our animal friends! Speaking of Bella is being her normal self making a mess and photobombing these living room photos!) 

Hope you enjoyed these photos! More to come soon! 

4t3 Sooky’s Kids Rugs Converted by SimsDeoGloria

Created for TS4 by the wonderful @sooky88​. You can see the original TS4 post here: x  A big thank you to Sooky for allowing me to convert her amazing work. 

2 Rugs Found under Rugs for $100 Simoleons Non- Recolorable 40 Presets 26 Presets for the round rug Low Poly

Download here: https://simfileshare.net/download/3284247/

@xto3conversionsfinds​ @katsujiiccfinds​ @emilyccfinds​ @pis3update​ 

Another day, another beautiful house in Rosewood Park.

Inspired to decorated by watching C J Plays on YouTube with his decorating Rosewood series so I wanted to decorate too (just of course had to use way more cc). Going for a coastal cottage kinda vibe.

Thank you to all the cc creators! @gruesim @zoeoe-sims @martassimsbookcc @kerriganhouse @aroundthesims and many others 💕

“Baking day for a church potluck! Crossing fingers it turns out!”

 ~ F A L L ~

I’m happy to report another friend came all the way to Winchester to visit me! Matt! He was supposed to come to help me pick apples but instead, he just hid behind his little camera. Oh well. Glad for the company even if it was just me picking apples. My plan is to send him lots of pictures of apple pie later to get  back at him.